MARTIN, JOSEPH LLOYD, M.
D., of Baltimore, Md., was born in Monmouth county, N. J., May 1st, 1820.
His parents were members of the Society of Friends. His father was an
eminent allopathic physician, who practiced for many years in that section
of the country. Soon after his father's death, he was placed under the
guardianship of his uncle in New York city. There, he received a good
practical education, and commenced his business career as clerk in his
uncle's dry goods establishment. The business proved exceedingly distateful
to him, and he determined to gratify the ambition of his boyhood by
preparing for the profession of medicine. His predilections for this
profession grew as he approached maturity, on his arrival at which he
abandoned his desk, and commenced a course of medical studies. Entering the
medical department of the University of New York, he graduated there in
1846. On his graduation, he commenced a course of studies in homopathy
under Professors J. F. Gray and Gerold Hall, of New York, and, in 1847,
located in Boston, Mass. Here he received a diploma from the Massachusetts
Medical Society, and remained in active practice in the city for three
years. In 1849, he was instrumental in demonstrating very clearly, and to
the satisfaction of hundreds, the superiority of homopathy, in the great
success which attended his treatment of the cholera. This terrible epidemic,
which ravaged the city of Boston in that year, was held in check by the homopathic
treatment, and Dr. Martin gained, by his disinterestedness, bravery, and
noble conduct among all classes, the merited love, and lasting gratitude of
hundreds of those who where saved from death through his zealous care. A
professional reputation was then acquired commensurate with the great good
he was enabled to accomplish.

In
1847, he was married to Mrs. Lorana D. Metcalf, of Georgia. In 1851, his
wife's health demanding a change to a milder and more genial climate, he
removed to the city of Baltimore, where he has since been engaged in the
active duties of his profession.

He
has had several positions of honor and distinction in his profession
proffered to him, but has declined them, preferring to confine his energies
to practice. His mind is of the inventive order, and giving scope to it in
moments seized from active practice, he has made several valuable scientific
inventions, for which he has obtained Letters Patent. The last of which was
for Ozonized Oxygen Gas and its compounds for inhalation in the treatment of
disease as a hygienic agent, and compressing the same in water for internal
or medicinal use, being the first who has ever opened so widely the field of
usefulness of these gases in medicine. As a physician, he admits of no truer
law in medicine than the homopathic, yet he believes that every true
physician should direct his efforts to promptly relieving human suffering
and saving life irrespective, if needs be, of dogmas.